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Highguard Has Several Voice Cast Members You'll Recognize From Other Games
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Highguard Has Several Voice Cast Members You'll Recognize From Other Games

Behind the cast of characters (or Wardens) of Highguard are voice actors who you've certainly heard before in recent video games. Having just launched the free-to-play raid shooter, developer Wildlight Entertainment shared a thread announcing the game's 10 main cast members.Leading the cast is Abubakar Salim, best known as the voice of Bayek in Assassin's Creed Origins, in the role of Atticus, the Warden at the center of most of Highguard's promotion materials. He's joined by Robbie Daymond (Cha

Bizarre TGA Closer Highguard Reaches Nearly 100K Concurrent Players Day-One On Steam
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Bizarre TGA Closer Highguard Reaches Nearly 100K Concurrent Players Day-One On Steam

Wildlight Entertainment's free-to-play shooter Highguard is finally out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S after weeks of silence, and already, the game has almost eclipsed 100,000 concurrents on Steam.If you check out the Most Played chart on Steam, you'll see that Highguard is clutching the number 10 spot (97,249 current), fending off the 2023 RPG Baldur's Gate 3 (84,313 current) at the time of this writing. It's nowhere to be found in the PC gaming distributor's Top Sellers chart, but

Highguard Studio Isn't Concerned With Accruing Massive Player Counts On Launch Day
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Highguard Studio Isn't Concerned With Accruing Massive Player Counts On Launch Day

One of the developers behind Highguard says the concurrent player count for the new first-person shooter does not need "to be super huge in order to be successful."As Highguard launches, previews are rolling out across a variety of different publications, including GameSpot. A flurry of interviews with the game's developers are also revealing more about the game that's now in players' hands. Lead Designer Mohammad Alavi shared the aforementioned sentiment about player count in a group interview

Ubisoft Devs Are Feeling "Anger And Despair" Over Impending Layoffs - Report
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Ubisoft Devs Are Feeling "Anger And Despair" Over Impending Layoffs - Report

Ubisoft's year is not off to an auspicious start, as the video game publisher has already shut down Ubisoft Halifax and laid off 70 developers before going on to cancel six games in development, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. Now, a report has emerged that morale among the devs has significantly declined.According to the French video game industry union Solidaires Informatique (via GamesIndustry.biz), "Anger and despair [are] reigning supreme" at Ubisoft. Although Soli

Blizzard Teases 'The Next Chapter' with Dedicated Diablo, Overwatch Showcases
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Blizzard Teases 'The Next Chapter' with Dedicated Diablo, Overwatch Showcases

Storm's brewing.Blizzard's set to reveal what's next for its major properties via separate showcases, all of which are airing over the next couple of weeks.Here on the PlayStation side of things, there are only two showcases that really concern us: the Overwatch event on the 4th February, and the Diablo one on the 11th February.Read the full article on pushsquare.com

Highguard Was Planned As A Shadow-Drop, But Geoff Keighley Had Another Idea
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Highguard Was Planned As A Shadow-Drop, But Geoff Keighley Had Another Idea

Highguard developer Wildlight Entertainment has revealed it originally planned to shadow-drop its free-to-play "raid shooter," until host Geoff Keighley offered to highlight it as the final reveal of 2025's The Game Awards instead.In an interview with GameSpot, studio cofounder and game director Dusty Welch said the plan was always for Highguard to be a "quiet shadow-drop." It's a strategy that worked well for Apex Legends, the popular free-to-play battle royale that many of the Highguard team a

Highguard devs say it was always the plan to "go dark" after its reveal, Ă  la Apex Legends' launch
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Highguard devs say it was always the plan to "go dark" after its reveal, Ă  la Apex Legends' launch

Good, bad, I don't bloody know yet the thing's only been about for five seconds, but we can certainly say one thing now: Highguard is out. Now we can sit and prepare ourselves for more inane and pointless discourse about yet another live service shooter that we've probably had several times before. Hooray! But before we get ahead of ourselves, a moment of reflection, courtesy of the devs behind Highguard itself, who have spoken out about all that silence following their Geoffies reveal. Read

Yoshi Debuts In Second Super Mario Galaxy Movie Trailer
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Yoshi Debuts In Second Super Mario Galaxy Movie Trailer

This year is poised to deliver an incredible slate of nerdy entertainment, and one of the first examples of that is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The follow-up to 2023's Super Mario Bros. Movie, which grossed more than $1.3 billion at the box office, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie looks to dramatically expand the scope by not only bringing our beloved heroes to space, but also by introducing several beloved characters to this cinematic contin

Roundup: Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About Highguard, Out Now On Xbox
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Roundup: Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About Highguard, Out Now On Xbox

A massive free-to-play release from former Titanfall devs!There's been speculation over whether it would launch on time, but the free-to-play release of Highguard has officially arrived on Xbox today, and the first reviews have just started going live across the web!For those who aren't aware, this is a PvP raid shooter made by developers behind Titanfall and Apex Legends, and because it's an online-based game, we're seeing a mix of "review", "preview" and "impressions" from various outlets — no

Highguard Review So Far
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Highguard Review So Far

So far this FPS genuinely stands out with a compelling new game mode and snappy gunplay.

Highguard Just Launched, But It Already Has A 2026 Roadmap
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Highguard Just Launched, But It Already Has A 2026 Roadmap

Highguard, the high-fantasy shooter from former Respawn Entertainment devs, will receive six major updates in 2026, introducing new playable characters, weapons, maps, and more.Developer Wildlight Entertainment revealed all the content players can expect both at launch and coming throughout the year as part of its "2026 Game Plan" roadmap.At launch, Highguard will include 8 playable Wardens (aka heroes), as well as 10 weapons, three raid tools, five maps, six bases, and three mounts to choose fr